New York Senate Bill S04763 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4763 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE February 14, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to authorizing the flag to be flown at half-staff to commemorate the death of certain members of the armed forces The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 21 of section 403 of the executive law, as 2 amended by chapter 666 of the laws of 2004, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 21. The flag shall be flown at full staff at all times except it shall 5 be flown at half-staff on the eleventh of September, known as September 6 11th Remembrance Day, the seventh day of December, known as Pearl Harbor 7 Day, and to commemorate the death of a personage of national or state 8 standing or of a local serviceman, official or public servant who, in 9 the opinion of the local agency concerned, contributed to the community. 10 It may also be flown at half-staff during special periods of mourning 11 designated by the President of the United States or the Governor of this 12 state. The Governor and all local agencies of this state shall order 13 flags to be flown at half-staff to commemorate the death of any member 14 of the armed forces of the United States who was a resident of the state 15 and was killed in the course of action. 16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07819-01-3